Mailman + The Perfect Server - Ubuntu 11.10 [ISPConfig 3]

My server is now upgraded to the above after starting 10.4 and I wish to integrate mailman.

The server has 6 email domains - all configured through ISPConfig 3 - and I want to enable mailman on 2 of those.

Can someone point me to the best "how to" on installation of mailman in my current environment?

 

This is from my working copy of the ISPConfig 3 Manual for ISPConfig 3.0.4 (which will be released after ISPConfig 3.0.4 has been released):

Afterwards, wait until ISPConfig 3.0.4 is released (comes with Mailman support) and then upgrade to 3.0.4. During the upgrade, please choose to let ISPConfig reconfigure all services.

 

Just what I was after - Many Thanks

 

OK - setup as described but the only issue I have now is accessing the lists via:
http://<vhost>/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/<listname>
etc

I have a list setup committee on domain polfidelity.org.au however the URL:
http://polyfidelity.org.au/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/committee gives me 404 error

I can access the list by using the server name:
http://server1.jones.dhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/committee

Question is what have I done wrong?

 

What's in /etc/apache2/conf.d/mailman.conf?

 

Code:

 Sample configuration for Debian mailman with Apache

# We can find mailman here:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
# And the public archives:
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
# Logos:
Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/share/images/mailman/

# Use this if you don't want the "cgi-bin" component in your URL:
# In case you want to access mailman through a shorter URL you should enable
# this:
#ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
# In this case you need to set the DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN in
# /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py to http://%s/mailman/ for the cookie
# authentication code to work.  Note that you need to change the base
# URL for all the already-created lists as well.

<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/>
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
    Order allow,deny

 

That's not the full file (is it?).

 

Code:

# Sample configuration for Debian mailman with Apache

# We can find mailman here:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
# And the public archives:
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
# Logos:
Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/share/images/mailman/

# Use this if you don't want the "cgi-bin" component in your URL:
# In case you want to access mailman through a shorter URL you should enable
# this:
#ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
# In this case you need to set the DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN in
# /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py to http://%s/mailman/ for the cookie
# authentication code to work.  Note that you need to change the base
# URL for all the already-created lists as well.

<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/>
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
    Order allow,deny

Yes it is - what am i missing????

 

Did you scroll to the end? At least the closing </Directory> is missing.

 

Oops - should have maximized the putty window - sorry about that....

Code:

# Sample configuration for Debian mailman with Apache

# We can find mailman here:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
# And the public archives:
Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
# Logos:
Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/share/images/mailman/

# Use this if you don't want the "cgi-bin" component in your URL:
# In case you want to access mailman through a shorter URL you should enable
# this:
#ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
# In this case you need to set the DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN in
# /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py to http://%s/mailman/ for the cookie
# authentication code to work.  Note that you need to change the base
# URL for all the already-created lists as well.

<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/>
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/>
    Options FollowSymlinks
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /usr/share/images/mailman/>
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>


## The following describes how to configure mailman on
## a dedicated virtual host, courtesy Marco d'Itri.

# Add these lines in /etc/mailman/mm_cfg.py:
#DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'lists.example.net'
#DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'lists.example.net'
#DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/'

#<VirtualHost *>
#ServerName lists.example.net
#DocumentRoot /var/www/lists
#ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/lists-error.log
#CustomLog /var/log/apache2/lists-access.log combined
#
#<Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/>
#    Options FollowSymLinks
#    AllowOverride None
#</Directory>
#
#Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
                                                       

 

Looks ok. Did you restart Apache? If that didn't work, can you post the polyfidelity.org.au vhost configuration?

 

/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/900-polyfidelity.org.au.vhost

Code:

<Directory /var/www/polyfidelity.org.au>
    AllowOverride None
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/clients/client0/web32/web

    ServerName polyfidelity.org.au
    ServerAlias *.polyfidelity.org.au
    ServerAlias bendigo.polyfidelity.org.au
    ServerAlias www.polyfidelity.org.au
    ServerAdmin [email protected]

    ErrorLog /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/polyfidelity.org.au/error.log


    ErrorDocument 400 /error/400.html
    ErrorDocument 401 /error/401.html
    ErrorDocument 403 /error/403.html
    ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.html
    ErrorDocument 405 /error/405.html
    ErrorDocument 500 /error/500.html
    ErrorDocument 502 /error/502.html
    ErrorDocument 503 /error/503.html

    <IfModule mod_ssl.c>
    </IfModule>
    <Directory /var/www/polyfidelity.org.au/web>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all

        # ssi enabled
        AddType text/html .shtml
        AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
        Options +Includes
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/clients/client0/web32/web>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all

        # ssi enabled
        AddType text/html .shtml
        AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
        Options +Includes
    </Directory>

    <IfModule mod_ruby.c>
      <Directory /var/www/clients/client0/web32/web>
        Options +ExecCGI
      </Directory>
      RubyRequire apache/ruby-run
      #RubySafeLevel 0
      <Files *.rb>
        SetHandler ruby-object
        RubyHandler Apache::RubyRun.instance
      </Files>
      <Files *.rbx>
        SetHandler ruby-object
        RubyHandler Apache::RubyRun.instance
      </Files>
    </IfModule>


    # cgi enabled
	<Directory /var/www/clients/client0/web32/cgi-bin>
      Order allow,deny
      Allow from all
    </Directory>
    ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/ /var/www/clients/client0/web32/cgi-bin/
    AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
    AddHandler cgi-script .pl
    # suexec enabled
    SuexecUserGroup web32 client0
    # Clear PHP settings of this website
    <FilesMatch "\.ph(p3?|tml)$">
        SetHandler None
    </FilesMatch>
    # suphp enabled
    <Directory /var/www/clients/client0/web32/web>
		<IfModule mod_suphp.c>
        suPHP_Engine on
        # suPHP_UserGroup web32 client0
        AddHandler x-httpd-suphp .php .php3 .php4 .php5
        suPHP_AddHandler x-httpd-suphp
		</IfModule>
    </Directory>

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   ^bendigo.polyfidelity.org.au$ [NC]
    RewriteRule   ^/(.*)$ /bendigo/$1  [L]

    # add support for apache mpm_itk
    <IfModule mpm_itk_module>
      AssignUserId web32 client0
    </IfModule>

    <IfModule mod_dav_fs.c>
	  # Do not execute PHP files in webdav directory
      <Directory /var/www/clients/client0/web32/webdav>
	    <FilesMatch "\.ph(p3?|tml)$">
          SetHandler None
        </FilesMatch>
      </Directory>
      # DO NOT REMOVE THE COMMENTS!
      # IF YOU REMOVE THEM, WEBDAV WILL NOT WORK ANYMORE!
      # WEBDAV BEGIN
      # WEBDAV END
    </IfModule>


</VirtualHost>

 

Can you switch off suExec and try again?

 

No such luck with turning off suExec. (+ I have a niggling feeling that Joomla needs suExec)

This to me is starting to look similar to the issues with Squirrel Mail - it seems as though Mailman does not like the environment required by Joomla.

However that being said I have tried different php settings to no avail - I have just tried setting up a list in a test environment that is not Joomla friendly but still getting a 404 error.

This is becoming somewhat frustrating - I have attached screenshots of my ISP Config settings to see if they can shed some more light....

 

Mailman is no PHP application, so your PHP settings do not matter. Are there any errors in the website's error log or the overall Apache error log?

 

Could find nothing in /var/log/apache2/error.log

However in /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/polyfidelity.org.au/error.log

and in /var/log/ispconfig/httpd/tastiger.dhs.org/error.log

Update
Just as a last ditch attempt I again switched off suExec and rebooted the server and I can now access the archives at:
http://tastiger.dhs.org/pipermail/test/ and
http://polyfidelity.org.au/pipermail/committee/
any other links give me a 404 error....

 

I guess that the Mailman aliases are conflicting with

Code:

ScriptAlias  /cgi-bin/ /var/www/clients/client0/web32/cgi-bin/

Does it work if you switch off CGI for the website?

 

Yes it does - now to look through the forums and check about suExec as i still have a suspicion it needs to be activated to be Joomla compatible

 

A Mailman Issue

Hi everyone,
I have Ispconfig 3 installed on Ubuntu 11.04 x64 (just upgraded to the new 3.0.4.4). Users want to use mailman so...

found this forum post and I apt-get installed mailman and ran newlist mailman and received this error:

root@mailer:/tmp/ispconfig3_install/install# newlist mailman
Enter the email of the person running the list: [email protected]
Initial mailman password:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/newlist", line 266, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/sbin/newlist", line 208, in main
emailhost=host_name, urlhost=urlhost)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 504, in Create
self.InitVars(name, admin, crypted_password, urlhost=urlhost)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line 408, in InitVars
baseclass.InitVars(self)
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line 124, in InitVars
}, mlist=self))
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 580, in maketext
return findtext(templatefile, dict, raw, lang, mlist)[0]
File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 557, in findtext
raise IOError(errno.ENOENT, 'No template file found', templatefile)
IOError: [Errno 2] No template file found: 'emptyarchive.html'

Tried to find if anyone else received this error and no luck. Any help would be appreciated into solving this issue.

 

According to this (old) thread...
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224319
... you should set

Code:

DEFAULT_SERVER_LANGUAGE = 'en'

in your mailman configuration.